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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yvrRome:
Not sure if you're able to get to download mode but whatever you do you still end up at the black sceen or you can't get to download mode. If you can get to download mode... I recently wrote this on another thread that fixed my problem which sounds similar to yours.

I ran into the same thing with black screen and phone occassionally vibrating after flashing with jpk. I determined my internal sd got messed up and was afraid I would have to send for repair like some members have. Well, I just used odin to flash my original firmware with repartition and got my internal sd back. So I re-flashed froyo without repartition and it's working now.

Hope that helps you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frriction:
remove battery, then while inserting battery press vol down+home button or vol down+home+power you might get recovery mode..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivanchin99:
100% sure you cannot get into either the download or recovery mode? Maybe wrong timing? Coz the only solution to this requires you to enter download mode at least
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qazz~:
Maybe try to adb recovery if your computer can sense your phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ronnymes:
Maybe this will help..

Take out your battery for 30 min or longer and after that try to startup in your recovery mode..

And thumbs crossed...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] callous-1:
I tried re-flashing original stock firmware (JH2) with pit512 and its doing the same thing. One thing i noted is when i go into 3 button recovery i can't apply update.zip. I get the following error E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (i/0 error)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
define dead.

how far does it go when you try to boot?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dawgpound6985:
So I've been flashing just about every ROM on Samsung-Firwmares as fast as my phone can load them. I've probably flashed about half of the European ROMs so far and I've been getting different results. Some ROMs stay on the GT-i9000 logo for a while (about 15-30 minutes) then proceed very slowly to the S logo boot screen without turning into a black screen like before. However, not much happens beyond it. The S logo is on and animating repeatedly but I still can't access adb to get a logcat. I'm allowing the phone to stay on for as long as it can without turning itself off in the hopes of getting access to Kies at some point.

The JP2 recovery seems to have root access and I was able to push Parted in an attempt to format the internal SDCard but it wasn't able to get to it. I didn't spend too much time with the JP2 recovery yet. Also, I am not seeing any more errors (mounting errors) in the recovery after formatting my SDCard using a Froyo ROM then flashing to an Eclair ROM without PIT repartition. So hopefully, its in the right direction.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faresmasouty:
if the update is official through kies and u havent rooted ur phone or voided ur warrenty take it to samsung service center ad tell them

either fix it or i shove it up ur a$$
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirphunkee:
Moved thread to proper section (Q&A)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrelo03:
well first i did was wipe, delete cache , data,everything .(in recovery mode ).then i rooted the phone with oclf 2.0 without lag fix.then tweaking yhe registry of kies with the phone hooked up i ve flashed ( upgraded ) with sh2 , i think it was . the original firmware was xxjf3.everything went ok,with the progress bar complete, the phone shut off , it should restart but it didnt.its dead.it doesnt even charge, doesnt boot, doesnt do anything.i ve tryed enter recovery mode , download mode, but nothing.cant do anything to start it up.ill try to send it to an service center these days.i believe i have no warranty at all now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mover23:
I'm glad other people have had luck, but I have tried this is all shapes and sizes and no dice...

So until someone comes up with something better, I guess I have a nice paperweight.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
This may be a dumb question, but did you try taking the battery out, putting it back in and starting up the phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dawgpound6985:
Okay I found out the fsck_msdos is the util to check for disk errors. Now the question is, how do I use it? When I try to run "fsck_msdos -f /system/" it gives me an invalid signature error:

fsck_msdos -f /system/
patched by d.moskvitin@samsung.com 2010/0
** /system/ (NO WRITE)
Invalid signature in boot block: 0000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frriction:
Try to flash with JPK see you get same error or not. This error possibly due to you tried to install JPK. Once you successfully flashed it with JPK try to reflash with firmware you like and see can you get same error.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniperviperman:
bricked phone?

For a few weeks I was using I9000XXJP3. problem was that the time was getting out of sync. almost 20 minutes every day and had to manualy change it, so today I tried to go back to I9000XXJF3, this was stock in my phone.

I set up odin like the way I did with JP3. I click start and factoryfs started loading. that moment the phone went black and no progress was indicated.

after a long time still nothing. odin did not show any progress, screen on phone still black. I removed the usb cable and removed the battery.

put the battery back in it and now the screen only shows a phone and computer symbol with a ! between them.

I tried volume up+home+ power and volume down+home+power but what ever I do, it keeps coming back with this black screen and symbol.

odin does not show any connections. usb cable is plugged in phone and computer, but there is no connection. so I can't continue the firmware restore.

Can someone please help with this problem?

Thank you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paweldk:
i have same problem :/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bin_asc:
Yup, it`s bricked.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
Sorry mate, sounds like you've fully bricked. When that logo appears and you can't get into download mode your screwed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :-D:
How can we protect ourselves from such a situation in future?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodue:
by having the 3 button goto download/recovery mode working!

when you get the phone-!-pc error @ boot you can go to download mode using home+vol-+power and then reflash with odin.

there should be a thread how to enable it if your phone can not do it from stock.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :-D:
but author somehow managed to flash froyo using odin, that means that he has 3 buttons working
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniperviperman:
guess what?

after having the battery removed for more than 5 minutes, installed the battery and immediately press the volume down+home+power it came back to the download mode and was able to flash back to the old firmware again. now everything is working like it used to be. I'll stick with this version and wait for the official 2.2 in October.

again, thanks everyone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ragin:
Hey, try holding VolDn+Menu+Pwr for a long time, its happened with me thrice.

Hope it helps.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodue:
no it doesn't. even people without the 3-button-combination can get into download mode (when the system is okay&running) with enabling adb[d] (usb-debugging) and issueing "adb reboot download"

glad everything worked out for you! -> looks like you have the 3-button-combo after all so you are pretty safe from bricking your sgs!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleepyhills:
Samsung i9000 Bricked (?)

Hey everyone,

I currently have an issue with my Bell Vibrant - gt-i9000m Galaxy S phone. I rooted it and tried applying the Bionix 1.3 ROM. However, now my phone goes into a constant loop of rebooting with this gray battery whenever I plug it into the computer via USB. I've tried factory reset/data wipe, recovering to a backup ROM and nothing is working out. I'd really appreciate any help and thank you so much.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
how about booting into Download Mode

then flash it back to Stock ROM?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleepyhills:
Hi!

I don't really understand, but I'll try my best to look further into it. Thanks! Would booting into download mode be done through Clockwork Mod Recovery? And is the stock ROM found in download mode? Sorry about these questions. >_<
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Download Mode is done via the 3 button comobo, see wiki http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S_Series

you can download the ROM from the Samsung firmware website linked on the wiki

also download Odin and the 512 pit file

You might want to consult the other topics about how to Flash your Phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleepyhills:
All of it seems involved with somehow sending ROMS and such to my sd card? I cannot do this though because it cannot be connected to my computer.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sayashi:
have you manage to fix this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
No one has been able to fix this specific issue. The only fix is a mainboard replacement of the phone, which means a repair trip to the Bell repair facility.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wyild1:
Morning

I did skim this post quickly so let mee know if i missed something. You are getting an error like so??

E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

(File exists)

Error mounting /data/!

Skipping format...

Copying files...

E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

(File exists)

E: Can't mount DATA:

E: Failure at line 372:

copy_dir PACKAGE:data DATA:

Installation aborted.

I had the same problem. What i did was flash my phone with a ROM that had Voodoo's lag fix installed. What that did was make an EXT4 partition, and then i tried to restore my nandroid and the stock kernel doesnt know how to read an EXT4 partition

Taken from: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=782027 (first post)

Step 9 where is says Download the 'True stock 2.1 firmware for the vibrant'. Thats where i used the firmware for your phone. That fix was written for vibrants in the states....so depending what firmware yours is from your area, you would use that

This issue happened to me and i followed the above steps to resolve it

Cheers!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dawgpound6985:
If you follow those steps, wouldn't you have changed buttons to access download mode? (Volume up + Volume Down + Power) Did download mode work after you flashed Eugene's ROM?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
I had this problem before. You installed something specific for the Tmobile Samsung vibrant. Go into download mode. To get into download mode hold vol down + home button while booting phone, let go of power button when it powers on, but don't let go of home and vol down.

Download pit 512 and jh2 here and flash with Odin.

It will boot up like normal after that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wyild1:
If the buttons changed, then they did. I really dont remember that little detail, i can tell you that it worked and never had a problem going into Download mode, and that i went though the instructions with no problems. I even flashed the virbrant rom the listed for 2.1 as per the instructions, lol which my phone wouldnt work as it couldnt find a signal at all. But i found the Bell ROM (I9000UGJH2) on samsung-firmwares site and was able to flash back to stock
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dawgpound6985:
I actually just tried it. It didn't change the download mode buttons. It also didn't fix my problem though. :( Guess my internal SDCard is fubar. The only thing I haven't attempted is running a Linux environment and possibly mounting the phone and doing some kind of chkdsk if thats even possible. I'm seeing cluster errors in logcat so if there's a way to mark those clusters as bad spots and avoid using them then it may just work. But I don't even know if thats possible.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opensourcefan:
For all of us reading this thread and hoping not to get into the same predicament, can anyone explain what caused this issue and how to avoid it. Was it because it was re-partitioned without a pit file? Surely not because it was rooted.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aefelix:
HELP NEEDED - Bricked Galaxy TAB! (I know I know wrong section ) BUT read inside ...

Long story short, I've got a GALAXY TAB developer model, Updated via odin to a newer firm(maybe a wrong pit file or a unchecked repartition in odin), non I can't boot any longer and cant go to recovery mode (no factory reset etc) I can perform adb commands and go to download mode.

Any help will be appreciated (and rewarded;))

I know is the galaxy s section but the TAB section is empty due to the unreleased toy ;)

TIA

ps. Yes I'm a stupid ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psp888:
is Odin even designed for the Tab
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aefelix:
Yes sir update done via odin succesfully.

Odin do the job.

now i lost the recovery mode and the ability to boot ;(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NetCopAD:
adb reboot recovery ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aefelix:
No go. ADb recovery command is functional but only reboot the tab. I think recovery partition is missing
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkara:
Put in download mode and flash new (and correct) firmware with Odin...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aefelix:
Thanks for the tip, already tried existing firm (on Samsung-firmwares.com) no luck, on my original jh8 dosnt boot , on ji5 boot but I think something goes wrong with resolution / refresh cause i see (before becoming all black) the screen flash like old broken tv screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
Well, in my case. I think it was the international modem file that gave me a brick.

From the post above, if you receive this message

E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

(File exists)

Then you can fix it because the device exists and its just not being able to mount correctly. You know your motherboard or sdcard is paperweight when you receive (File does not exist). Which is what I got.

I was running JPC for a while with OCLF from the Market. When I saw the reported problems here, I uninstalled the lag fix and my phone was working sweet for about 2 weeks.

I then proceeded to install JPK over JPC, worked like a charm. One day, I go somewhere out of town to attend a concert. At that concert, my signal was very weak (1 bar, or no bars at all), and kept fluctuating betwen 3G/H/EDGE constantly. When I left the concert, I saw that my screen was completely black, not responsive, and my backlight buttons were constantly lit. I realized it was dooms day.. Verified it by going to Recovery Mode and getting that dreaded message in red.

So I have a new theory that needs some testing. Did everyone that had a brick phone install the i9000 modem ? or did some of the bricks happen on the JH2 firmware with some lagfix ?

For me, it was really quite clear that this terribly weak signal and constant frequency switching is what caused the brick. I might be wrong, but that was the only thing that was unusual that day.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sargorn:
Sorry for the necro, but an update to this one:

After emailing and trying to phone for over a week to Samsung HK (who refused to accept it via courier to be serviced). I got it serviced in Australia for $55. (Mailed it to family there and they'll mail it back soon).

Took Samsung about three working days to get it back in Australia, seems like it's back without recovery/download mode still - so I get to risk screwing around with the Canadian update.zip when it does get back to Japan. (bleh).

Curious which firmware they've flashed, but my brother hasn't got back to me on that one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uytko:
hope but need to buy hardware :D

jtagbox.com/jtag-news/riff-jtag-samsung-galaxy-i9000-unbrickrepair-bricked-boot/

i just half-bricked mine too, cannot get the recover or download mode, the device is invisible to any box (win/gnu/nix) , at the boot i have the galaxy S logo and the music then nothing , stuck on the logo, if poweroff and remain connected we can see the battery charging

i tried the 3 buttons hold even the 4 (vol + and - , home, pwr)

so from my point of vue is totaly bricked

if the won't replace my phone i will try the riff box
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stickyasglue:
[Q] Help me unbrick my phone!(weird brick)

Hey guys,

I managed to brick my phone, it went weird and all the graphics vanished then it powered off and now wont boot, i can get into the recovery, but how can i reflash a rom or something as i cant access the internal sd card :(

any help ??

Thanks guys
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
hey! haven't seen you a while since you boom box project :D

did you install lag fix before it died?

which model do you have?

i9000 or i9000m ?

if you can go into Recovery Mode, you can try wiping out data and cache, then reboot

if you can go into Download Mode, try to flash back to a stock ROM

Let us know the detail message of the error if you encounter the Internal SD missing or corrupted issue
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mardulis:
had the brick icon and 20 minutes of hell...

a few trials of pulling out the battery and pressing the DOWNLOAD combination got the machine back to life... flashed it with some Kernel.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pnm005:
[Q] [HELP] pda:jm8 / phone:jm4 Bricked SGS

Hi Guys

Today when connecting SGS to PC Kies had available pda:jm8 / phone:jm4 to update Firmware,

Did all steps as requested and upon restart SGS doesn´t pass The Galaxy S Logo.

Anyone with solutions to get him alive again?

Tks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] [Ramad]:
Take the battery out and put it back after 2 min. then start the phone...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imparator:
Perfom a wipe data and wipe cache via recovery mode

Did you check repartition in odin?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NetCopAD:
First start after flash could take about 10 minutes. Wait.

If it does not start, take the battery out and try again. If that does not help, get into recovery mode, do a factory reset and wipe the cache.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NetCopAD:
@imparator he flashed trough Kies
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imparator:
My bad sorry. I was reading this on my jm8 i9000. Missed it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pnm005:
Working..........

Was starting to get the HTC diamond ready, when connected the battery again SGS Started up, maybe the 10 minutes is true...

Tks all. ffor very fast reply.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiru1602:
Samsung Service Centers-Question about Bricked Phones

Hello Folks,

I have been reading few posts about Bricked phones and success stories of some members who have given their Bricked Phones for Service and got them back working.

I had noticed that many of them have been given a Time frame of 1 week for repairs of their Bricked phones. I was curious about the same, because Flashing a Firmware would take about 1 hour maximum. I highly speculate that the Samsung Service Centers may be Replacing the Main PCB as a Whole instead of directly flashing the firmware by using JTAG.

I myself had a bricked phone without warranty. I had approached the Service Center and they had told me that they would replace the Main PCB as a whole because they told they had no way of flashing a firmware without the Download Mode working. I guess the reason why many of the members here got back their bricked phones repaired and also the 3 Button combos working sometimes was because Samsung had replaced their PCB, which included a new ROM and obviously a new Bootloader which had the Combos fixed.

This is totally a theory. I just need inputs from any members who have had a bricked phone and gave it back to Samsung, so that we can know what they are really doing to fix it.

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
unless some one here knows a guy working on the inside of those services centers for Galaxy S

no one will know for sure.

one of the phones i sent and got back from repair, it came back working with the 3 buttons and same IMEI the shell was the same

so they could have either flashed the phone, or changed only the innars as you said.

there's no way to know unless you put a mark on the PCB before you submit it, and then check if it's the same PCB after it returns
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pnm005:
Having it all together ,

Found that google accct would not sign in, search some forums and solution was to log in Youtube APP and Google

would sync also, True, solved.

Now i still have several issues with some applications that will not Start

When the phone boots i have 3 errors

1st. google.android.apps.uploader stopped unexpectedly

2nd calendar - com.android.calendar stopped (cleared cach/removed battery9 nothing, simply not working

3rd com. android.phone stopped unexpectedly (no tested solution)

also have the video Player - com.sec.Android.app.videoplayer Stopped. No tested solution.

Anyone having a clue on this errors?

Afraid to flash again? This may be a solution? This is a company phone and only can update official Kies releases, and it says no

update is required.

Waiting again you good help.

Brgds
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bandis710:
Did you , as mentioned before ,go into recovery mode and do a wipe + wipe cache ? All the problems you describe are problems I had before and a complete wipe and clear cach via recovery solved all of them .. If you still keep getting problewms I would advise you to use odin to flash JM8 and check repartition ,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pnm005:
Yes, both wipe factory reset + wipe cache, no luck.

As stated this phone is for my use but is a company phone, will not test ODin on this.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bandis710:
and what if you flashed trhought Kies again ? There are a lot of tutorials here in the forum where you can see how you can edit the registry to fool kies .. because you have a companyphone and oyu want only official updates you could put your old firmware version in registry .. that way Kies will again say that there is an update and will give you the update to jm8 again .. Also sometimes you can reflash the same version through kies by putting kies into test mode ( ctr+ u+ P)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
This sounds odd but JM8 isn't a official released build. how did you get this? and you might as well use odin as you are using a unofficial rom already
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lak100:
i bricked my samsung galaxy s before a while it shows me a phone conected to pc with an orange triangle in the middle except of going to samsung what else can i do?